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Specific Families and Genera => Meconopsis => Topic started by: ichristie on March 28, 2013, 09:16:17 AM
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At last we have some signs of growth the wind has blown away some snow but luckily it has not been so harsh as the last few weeks. We have noticed that any flowers above the snow have been destroyed by the wind are all brown and wilted even the crops in the fields beside us which were green are now looking dead. We will remember this year for a long time and many plants will be dead however our Meconopsis are showing some signs of life the ones I can see at least. I have also quite a few seedlings of Meconopsis punicea which had germinated in January no chance to prick them out frozen solid but they look as if they have grown a little so will prick out a few. I am posting pictures taken this morning so good just to see how plants have managed to survive I imagine that in the Himalayas the snow saves them as well, cheers Ian the Christie kind
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At least you have some snow covering Ian. We had strong drying winds and freezing weather with full sun, so many plants were freeze dried the moment they came up. Many Trilliums suffered this way. My Meconopsis still have dormant buds and the seeds have not germinated yet (luckily). Good to see yours are doing fine.
So tired of this weather...... >:(
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There are many plants that are lost this winter. The days are sunny and beautiful, the wind cold, and the nights are often below -10 degrees. Some nights have been all the way down to -20 degrees and no snow.
So, in this weather, was happy for the snow it protects a lot.
It's not so much we can do about it, other than to use the site to new purchases.
How lucky for me that we are going to the Czech Republic.
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How lucky for me that we are going to the Czech Republic.
Hey, Ulla, are you going to the Czech Conference? :) 8)
Hope that is so - see you there!!
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Yes Maggie, my sister and I will go there. We will drive to make room for a lot of plants to take home.
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Yes Maggie, my sister and I will go there. We will drive to make room for a lot of plants to take home.
Ulla, sorry, you must think me a fool- of course I already knew that you and your sister are driving to the event - my mind is going- I must need a nice holiday in the Czech Republic!
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Hello,
I've always failed with Meconopsis due to my difficult weather conditions. But this year we have a cool spring and some seeds have raised again.
Here are some of the young plants just planted in a shaded container. How could I manage to keep them in good health? I have a south-west exposure and, of course, hot temperatures in summer. All conditions which do not suit Meconopsis...I've chosen small sized ones in order to have more chances of success.
JP
Meconopsis Villosa
Meconopsis Horridula
Meconopsis Prattii
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Meconopsis delavayi
- sown in January, 2010, from SRGC seed exchange
- has bloomed every summer since 2011
Thank you to whoever donated the seeds!
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Meconopsis are flowering here now
Meconopsis x cookei 'Old Rose' with its parents Meconopsis quintuplinervia and Meconopsis punicea
Meconopsis punicea
Meconopsis x beamishii
Meconopsis rudis
I know the last one should be Meconopsis Infertile Blue Group 'Bobby Masterton' but I always think of it as x sheldonii 'Cruickshank'.
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Jean-Patrick,
Apart from the usual advice, keeping them shaded etc. make sure you water them from below as they hate being watered from above when it is hot and sunny. The ones you have chosen are the best to try in your conditions but even a sharp shower on a sunny day can cause damage which leads to fatal mildew.
Susan
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Meconopsis currently flowering in my garden at Penicuik at about 200m asl.
Meconopsis on the brain at the moment after Gardening Scotland and seeing so many stands and show gardens with at least species or cultivar on display.
I'm also reworking my lecture on all things Meconopsis for this weekend's workshop a RBGE. Thinking about what plants in the collection to sacrifice in the name of education and learning...
Meconopsis grandis 'Strathpey'
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Meconopsis 'Lingholm'
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Meconopsis punicea 'Sichuan Silk'
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Meconopsis quintuplinervia
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At the rate of seeming obsessed and banging on about Meconopsis....
Meconopsis 'Slieve Donard' at RBGE at the moment is something else
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At the rate of seeming obsessed and banging on about Meconopsis....
Meconopsis 'Slieve Donard' at RBGE at the moment is something else
Lovely to see them en masse, Alan. I wish I had room for big drifts of meconopsis. There are not many people posting on this thread so please show as many pictures as you can. I will not complain.
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Jean-Patrick,
Apart from the usual advice, keeping them shaded etc. make sure you water them from below as they hate being watered from above when it is hot and sunny. The ones you have chosen are the best to try in your conditions but even a sharp shower on a sunny day can cause damage which leads to fatal mildew.
Susan
Thank you very much Susan!
JP
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A few of my own cookei-hybrids have stared flowering, the dark purple one is quite nice and very vigorous, but the flowers are sadly somewhat small. The dullish, pale purple one is semi-double and has very large flowers, the other two just look like variations of 'Old Rose'.
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A few of my own cookei-hybrids have stared flowering, the dark purple one is quite nice and very vigorous, but the flowers are sadly somewhat small.
Yeah that purple colour is really quite nice. Is it just a back cross or just a straight cross?
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Yeah that purple colour is really quite nice. Is it just a back cross or just a straight cross?
Just the straight cross, the majority of pods were largely empty, so when I got a full pod on one of the puniceas I figured it was the straight species - and sold the majority of the resulting 50 or so seedlings under that name... A couple of those I've saved are rhizomatous like quintuplinervia, which should ease propagation, but it doesn't look like they will flower before I go back home to China.
More pictures here:
http://www.hagegal.no/hagefora/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=43356 (http://www.hagegal.no/hagefora/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=43356)
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=4027.msg197338#msg197338 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=4027.msg197338#msg197338)
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The most amenable and meconopsis-friendly weather today to welcome the blossom of both first Meconopsis in the garden here: overcast, fresh, with some light drizzle from time to time.
Meconopsis integrifolia finally opens up its first flower, after 5 years from sowing. With the wet weather the flower will probably stay closed today, but it's already a marvellous sight for me, and a big reward.
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Then the Meconopsis simplicifolia, concentrating all its beauty in this lonely flower some 30/40cms above the ground rosette of small and really not enticing foliage.
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The first ex betonicifolia hybrids should start to open by the end of the week.
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I like this combination (quite accidental)
Meconopsis quintuplinervia and Meconopsis x beamishii
also the lovely red hairs on M. x beamishii seed pods
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Help needed. The two meconopsis in the pictures were grown from seed sown in 2011.
The plants look perfectly healthy but I have not seen flower heads like these before. Are the diseased, a hybrid or a species ? One of the plants is the standard "blue" and the other was red in bud and opened to lilac.
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We do sometimes get a crowded head, like the one shown in the your first picture, Tom. Just a passing aberration I think. Your second, fasciated flower is probably nothing more than a random fasciation - which I think there are as many explanations for as there are hours in the day - and the odd colour is something I always attribute to the weather and Ian always worries will be constant and spread to others so he pulls ' em up if they show like that..... :-\
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Some recent pictures of M. 'Slieve Donard' ...
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M. 'Slieve Donard'
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M. 'Slieve Donard'
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Two different Meconopsis horridula (I think) from the same seed batch.
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So many beautiful and interesting images of Meconopsis. Buds and seedpods as nice as the flowers.
I had M. horridula flower for the first time this year, seeds from SRGC 2011. I was very excited when the first bloom appeared (first picture) early June, but that plant is still going, flowering now around its base. It must have had 20-25 flowers. The same plant is shown on the left in the second picture, taken mid June.
A 'bunch' of self-seeded large blue poppies has appeared in the garden the last few years. They bloomed a little last year, and this year they were really nice, so they must be perennial. One is shown in the third picture. It certainly was a good year for Meconopsis here, there was a very nice display in the Stavanger Botanical Garden. It seems you had a good Meconopsis year too, Trond.
Knud
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M. 'Slieve Donard'
What an amazing photo shoot of this incredible fine 'Slieve Donard'.